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LEGO Star Wars Planet Series 3 Republic Assault Ship & Coruscant (75007) Review

February 22, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Star Wars Republic Assault Ship & Planet Coruscant (75007)

YourCreativeFriends has done another review of the new LEGO Star Wars Series 3 Planet sets. This time it’s the Republic Assault Ship & Coruscant (75007). This particular set contains 74 pieces and retails for $9.99. The minifigure that is included in the set is a redesigned Phase I Clone Trooper. Check out the video below for more details of the Republic Assault Ship & Coruscant set.

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LEGO Star Wars UCS Red Five X-wing Starfighter (10240) on Shop@Home

February 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The newly announced LEGO Star Wars UCS Red Five X-wing Starfighter (10240) is now listed on LEGO Shop@Home. It is priced at $199.99 and is expected to be released on Star Wars Day, May 4th (May the 4th be with you). Last year, LEGO had some deals going on for two days including a free exclusive TC-14 minifigure, free poster, and free shipping. If my prediction holds true, LEGO will most likely have a similar promotion during this time. Stay tuned for more details.

Build the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars™ X-wing Starfighter!

Collect and create the most highly detailed LEGO® Star Wars™ X-wing Starfighter ever produced. This iconic starfighter is featured in many of the most exciting Star Wars battle scenes, including the decisive battle scene above planet Yavin™. Recreate the moment when Luke Skywalker’s X-wing delivered the proton torpedo that led to the destruction of the Imperial Death Star! With 1558 pieces, this realistically detailed model features opening wings and cockpit, a special display stand, data sheet label and R2-D2.

• Includes R2-D2 atromech droid
• Features highly authentic detailing, and opening wings and cockpit
• Includes 1558 pieces
• Measures over 10″ (26cm) high, 20″ (52cm) long and 18″ (46cm) wide
• Includes display stand and data sheet label!

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LEGO Star Wars Planets Series 3 Jedi Starfighter & Kamino (75006) Review

February 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Star Wars Jedi Starfighter & Planet Kamino (75006)

Our buddies over at YourCreativeFriends has recently picked up a couple of the new LEGO Star Wars Series 3 Planet sets. Here they are reviewing the Jedi Starfighter & Kamino (75006). The set has 61 pieces and it retails for $9.99 at the LEGO store where they’ve found these sets. Like all previous Planet sets, they come with a minifigure and this set has the R4-P17 astromech droid. Check out their video below and be sure to subscribe to their channel.

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LEGO CUUSOO Interview With Team BTTF

February 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO CUUSOO has recently interviewed Team BTTF to learn more about the creators of the LEGO DeLorean Time Machine, Masashi Togami and Sakuretsu. As you may have already know, the DeLorean was the set chosen by CUUSOO in the Summer Review to be the next set that will be produced by LEGO. Also, the 1% royalties that Masashi gets from the sale of the sets will all be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which is pretty awesome in it’s own right.

The purpose of Team BTTF was to reintroduce the movies to a newer generation of fans using LEGO. Each member of the team had different roles with Masashi taking the lead with product concepts and the press relations. Sakuretsu handles the model building and the custom minifigures. Legohaulic was also involved in building the UCS Time Machine.

The interview was very insightful on how the concept of the DeLorean as a LEGO set came from a sketch to becoming a reality. Read the whole interview on the LEGO CUUSOO blog here.

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LEGO Had Strong Continued Growth in 2012

February 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today, The LEGO Group released their annual report for 2012 and it was another successful year for the toy company. With the launch of the 2013 Toy of the Year Friends theme combined with the continued successful themes such as City, Star Wars, and Ninjago, LEGO increased their revenue by a staggering 25% to GBP 2,549 million. This amount almost triples the sales from 5 years ago in 2007 and is the fifth year in a row that the LEGO Group had a revenue growth over 15%.

Key facts from the LEGO Group’s annual report for 2012, which was published today:

• The year’s operating profit increased to GBP 866 million against GBP 660 million in 2011, an increase of 40%.
• The operating margin increased to 34% from 30% in 2011.
• The year’s net profit increased to GBP 611 million against GBP 484 million in 2011.
• The revenue increased by 25% to GBP 2,549 million against GBP 2,181 million in 2011. In local currency (i.e. excluding the impact of foreign exchange changes) revenue increased 20% year over year.
• The net cash generated from operating activities was GBP 680 million against GBP 430 million in 2011.
• In 2012 the Group paid GBP 208 million in corporate income taxes.
The LEGO Group reporting currency is DKK. Conversion from DKK to GBP is based on an annual average currency rate (however conversion of net cash generated from operating activities is based on year-end currency rate) in 2012 and 2011 respectively.

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LEGO Ghostbusters Headquarters by Orion Pax

February 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

I don’t usually feature MOCs but if I do, Orion Pax’s name will probably show up more in the future. World-renowned LEGO genius, Orion Pax, has recreated the famous Hook & Ladder 8 fire station used in the Ghostbusters movies, and as usual, with a high degree of detail. The MOC shows many little details from the movies including the traps and the storage facility in the basement. Not to be overshadowed by the headquarters, Orion has also recreated the most realistic Ecto 1 vehicle I’ve ever seen. He states that the whole project took many, many hours of planning and about 2 months to build. Click on each photo to see a higher resolution. Also take a look at Orion’s page for more of his MOCs.

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LEGO Releasing Smaller Boxes To Help Environment

February 21, 2013 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

As a leader in the industry, LEGO is taking a stand to help the environment by releasing smaller boxes to cut back on their carbon footprint. These new boxes will have a FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification “which lowers the CO2 impact of its packaging by about 10%.” You will be able to start seeing the smaller boxes this year and by 2015, all of the products will be in smaller boxes. With this change, LEGO will save about 4000 tons of cardboard which is about 18% of their current consumption. These new boxes will come from sustainable forest so less trees will have to be taken down.

How will this benefit consumers and The LEGO Group? For us consumers, we’ll have smaller boxes to carry around and stores will have more space to stock their shelves. For LEGO, the smaller boxes also affect logistics such as transportation from the factories to the stores. LEGO is also involved in other plans to lower their carbon footprint. About 25% of the emissions are from manufacturing of the bricks themselves so they’ve made plans to mold the bricks more efficiently. The company also has invested in wind energy to improve their energy consumption. By using wind, LEGO can use clean energy that is plentiful and produces no emissions.

Read more about LEGO’s stance to help the environment here.

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